Time to put an end to the cybersecurity blame game

Whenever something goes wrong there’s a natural tendency to want to find someone to blame. In the realm of cybersecurity, that urge to blame someone often results in someone getting fired whenever there is cybersecurity breach. The results of a survey of more than 400 C-suite executives from enterprises across the U.K. and U.S. that oversee businesses with over 8,000 employees published this week by Nominet, a provider of a managed DNS security services, finds that one-third of CEOs said that they would terminate the contract of those responsible for a data breach.

The trouble with the blame game is that it typically is an attempt to project, deny, or displace responsibility by avoiding awareness of your own flaws or failings. The same C-level executive survey notes more than three-quarters (76%) respondents admit they know that a...